Bias: The need to maintain Discipline Committee impartiality and independence from regulatory staff
Professional disciplinary proceedings are quasi-judicial fora in which the impartiality of decision-makers is a...
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Defective Search Orders
The Health Professions Act allows for colleges to apply to the court to obtain...
Read MoreBad Character: How long does it take to become good again?
With civility between lawyers being of recent concern to the Law Society of Upper...
Read MoreOur Pick for the Top Five Administrative Law Cases in 2010
Writing this blog entry seemed easy at first but when we started to review...
Read MoreUndertakings and Discipline: penalties and proportionality for multiple acts
Where a regulator seeks to address a complaint involving multiple wrongs, and the complaint...
Read MoreDiscipline: Adequacy of reasons, credibility, and Cleo the cat
A hearing panel may make an unreasonable decision if it fails to enumerate the...
Read MoreUpcoming Events: CLE on Self-Governing Professions
APRIL 1, 2011: The agenda of the BC CLE course on Self-Governing Professions includes...
Read MoreUpcoming Events [updated]: CBA Health Law subsection meeting on registration issues under the HPA
MARCH 28, 2011: Lisa C. Fong and Christian Morey, articled student, will give a lunch-hour...
Read MoreHPRB Month Part Four: Exclusion of evidence
The Review Board has been in place for just over two years, but is...
Read MoreGovernance: The B.C. College of Teachers, the Avison Report, the BCTF defamation suit against council member, Richard Walker, and the election of Christy Clark
Self-governing professions can often replicate the ideological disputes found in society at large, including...
Read MoreJudicial Review for apprehension of bias: production of documents by the decision-maker
The Supreme Court recently reserved its decision on an application by the College of...
Read MoreHPRB Month Part Three: Reasonableness of Decisions
The Health Professions Review Board (HPRB) has confirmed reviews of inquiry dispositions are on...
Read MoreCan professional regulators enforce cost awards in court?
If a registrant ends up owing his or her regulatory body fines or costs,...
Read MoreHPRB Summaries: Summary dismissal for no prospect of success (chiropractors)
The BC Health Professions Review Board does not, when performing a review of an...
Read MoreHPRB Month Two: A commentary on the HPRB mediation process
Heather MacKay, Registrar of the College of Dental Surgeons of BC, is scheduled to...
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